Tag: BR
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Diagram 1/044 Part 2.
As promised, I continued construction of the wagon tonight. First task was to fit the buffers and to assist with accurate fitting of the replacements, I first bored down the existing shank, thereafter widening the hole to accommodate the broader mounting spigot of the new cast buffers. Next task was to fit the drawhooks (Exactoscale)…
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Useful new book
A very useful publication has arrived today; Hugh Longworth’s BR Mark 1 & Mark 2 Coaching Stock (ISBN 978-0-86093-650-3) Ian Allan Publishing. This is to my mind a companion to the excellent volumes by Parkin and Harris respectively. Rather than try to go over the same ground as those excellent technical appraisals, this book carves…
